This 2014 action movie hit revived a kind of thriller that Hollywood had ignored in the age of superhero movies: simple, streamlined, driven by action scenes that rely on physical prowess rather than computer generated elements. It also turned Keanu Reeves into an unexpectedly terrific action star.
Nicholas Winding Refn’s social commentary-as-heady horror film isn’t big on subtlety but his allegory for the hunger for youth and beauty is fascinating and gorgeous.
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter play the most excellent dads of teenage daughters in this hilarious time-traveling sequel set thirty years after their last chapter.
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are the sweet high school underachievers and would-be rocker stars who travel through time and meet death in their comic adventures.
The original ‘The Matrix’ has become such a touchstone of American pop culture—referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted)—that it’s hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it debuted in 1999.
